Garment-hanger



(No Model.)

P. CUMMINGS & M. WANKERL.

GARMENT HANGER.

Patented Mar. 29,1898.

fi/N ENTOHQ ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PETER CUMMINGS AND MICHAEL WANKERL, OF CANAJOHARIE, NEW YORK.

ATENT FFICE- GARM ENT-HANG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 601,502, dated March 29, 1898. A u ti fil d March 16, 1897. Serial No. 627,851. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

* Be it known that we, PETER CUMMINGS and MICHAEL WANKERL, of Oanajoharie, in the county of Montgomery and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a superior garment-hanger of that class for holding hats and coats, and particularly those having rigid base-blocks provided with sprin garms projecting therefrom to engage the garments.

This specification is the specific description of one form of our invention, while the actual scope of the invention is defined in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device, and Fig. 2 is a sectional View on the line 2 2 ofFig. 1. v

The garment-hanger has a base-block a, to which a fastening-block b is secured by two screws passing through the fastening-block into the base-block. The fastening-block 1) holds at its lower portion two spring-loops 0, respectively projecting downward and outward from the. block b to points below the block CL and being shaped to project forward frombthe vertical plane of both the blocks a and The upper portion of the block 17 carries a loop d, which projects first upward from the block b and thence downward forward of the block b and outward therefrom. The loop d is located centrally with reference to the loops 0 and serves to press the collar of a coat inward against the loops 0, while the lower ends of the loops 0 engage under the collar and serve, in conjunction with the loop cl, to hold the coat.

The upper portion of the block 79 carries a 45 fourth loop a, which projects first upward above the'uppermost portion of the loop (1 and thence downward and outward, terminating above the lower terminal of the loop d. The juxtaposition of the loop e to the loop d is such that the rim of a hat may be projected between the loops (1 and e and pressed from opposite sides by said loops, whereby the hat is held in place. By means of this construction, therefore, We provide a garment-hanger the loops 0 in which engage beneath the collar of a coat and the loop at of which presses down on this collar, so as to hold the coat firmly between the loops 0 on one hand and the loop (1 on the other hand. The hanger also holds the hat by pressing the rim between two pointsnamely, the loop d and the loop ethe rim of the hat being pushed up ward between the intersecting lines of said loops, as is shown best in Fig. 2.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A garment-hanger having a fastening-block, two spring-loops secured to the lower portion of the fastening-block and projecting downward and outward so as to diverge from each other and being capable of supporting a coat, and two additional loops secured to the upper portion of the fastening-block and projecting upwardly and thence downwardly and outwardly between the two first-named loops, the twolast-named loops being one shorter than the other and the longer loop being wider than the shorter loop, and the said shorter loop having a portion extended between the runs of said longer loop.

PETER CUMMINGS. MICHAEL WANKERL.

Witnesses: LOUIS BIERBAUER, J r., MARVIR H. KLocK. 

